Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
Fear is the mind-killer.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.